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Dear members: I wish I could say that I found this myself but I actually purchased it from an estate sale. There was no identification paperwork that came along with it but my own research online leads me to believe that it may be a Keichousaurus. I’ve examined the matrix carefully with magnification and I see enough continuation of strata from the surface down the sides and I even scraped away some matrix next to ribs to determine that this was not a fake or reproduction. So any help in confirming the identification would be appreciated. It seems to me that this is a pretty nice specimen and probably from China but I do wonder if it’s fairly common or if it is an example of a special specimen. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and I hope the photographs are adequate.
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I'm not sure if I've come to the right place but I found this during a walk today and I am unsure of what it could be. Can anyone help? Thank you.
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Half psittacosaurus skeleton?
Big Mac boi posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I have found this psittacosaurus skeleton for sale and was wondering if it's authentic the skull looks a bit funky but not sure about the rest
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Is Fossil excavation Legal? / Is obtaining Fossils Legal?
Phos_01 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello everyone, I have just discovered this Forum, and I have to say it looks amazing! I feel like I've come to the right place, it has everything regarding Fossils and knowledge of people. I hope to find some additional Fossils here for my collection I have just a few questions: Is it actually legal to dig up Dinosaur Fossils? Im just wondering as an example, if you dig up a Triceratops in Canada, or a Tyrannosaur Rex in the States (what would be awesome) is this allowed to search/dig for them? Can you just visit a digging site and start on your own, how does it work? And my next question, if you would be lucky enough to find a Dinosaur Fossil, can you keep it? Or is it illegal to keep the Fossils, and are they curtesy of the Country? Perhaps the laws are different in each country but still. I have been told that it's impossible for example to get a Velociraptor, due to the fact that it's found it China, and the laws are extremely strict in Fossils shipping. Or another example, because Dinosaurs are found in all parts of the world, lets say you find a Mosasaurus in an unkown Fossil digging site, what do you? Perhaps these are stupid questions, but I've been wondering this for weeks now. I have started my collection, and I got some nice Megalodon Tooth from Indonesia, and some Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus tooth, now these tooth are from Morocco Kem Kem region, I feel like this is the only place left out there were its somewhat legal to dig up al these treasures, and ship them to other parts of the world. But even here, I have doubts if this is Legal. They told me if they don't sell them, they would just be destroyed because of the digging mines to make fertilizer. Im just asking because it's a dream to go Dinosaur Fossil hunting one day. Thank you for your reply's! Best, Phos_01 ps. For those who are wondering, here are some pictures of my Fossils in my first Member post: -
Hi guys, I recently purchased this piece from an auction house here in Ireland, apologies as this is a replica display piece and not a real fossil, so I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct discussion! I'm fairly certain that it is not anatomically correct at all, but if anyone has any information as to what species this replica represents that would be much appreciated! It is labelled as originating from the Devon Zoology Centre and has the dimensions: 92cm H x 155cm W x 55cm D.
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Wondering what the species of this frog is. Has a length of about 4 inches with hind leg length of about 2 inches. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Skull length around 10 inches, skull width around 4-5 inches, with a beak that seems to indicate that it's a fish-eating bird. Any help would be much appreciated!
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I just thought I would share a few pictures of this amazing snake I was able to acquire from a good friend who is letting go of a few pieces of his collection. He is getting up in age and I was honored enough to be the recipient of a few incredible pieces. This snake was found in 1988 in a cave on private property in Oregon. It is Pleistocene in age and is believed to be a species of racer (colubridae). Enjoy Seth
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Ahoi. Another marine tetrapod. To be perfectly clear, This is a commercially bought Model which I changed to my ideas.Like my marine sloth and most of my dino- and other saurian ,models, but not my whales. I ordered the model from geoworld because some of the line had been quite nice. When I first saw it I didn´t think I could make something for my collection out of it. Tried it anyway. Because of the size in my chosen scale of 1/20 I decided to model it on Platecarpus, although I don´t claim to be accurate to even genus level. It´s just the medium sized Mosasaur to go with my whales and other seacritters. The flippers may need further detailwork. But for now I am content with the result. The base is a recent tuna vert by the way. Aloha!
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Three models, three very different animals, three methods: Anomalocaris, sculpted in fimo according to fossil drawings, 6 cm long Hesperornis, digitally distorted from a recent bird skeleton and Tyrannosaurus skull, 3d printed, 9cm long. Hydrodamalis, skull digitally distorted from a dog skull, postcranial plywood and putty like my whales, 38 cm. Aloha J
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I was walking on a countryside path in York (UK) and a strange rock on a plowed land captured my attention. It has a strange shape that looks to me as a fragment of bone close to its epiphysis which seems broken. The cross section is composed of three layers, the central one brownish-red, the middle one white (both very solid) and the most external one is like rock but a bit porous to touch. Do you think it can be a fossil bone? If yes, what could it be? First image as size reference.
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Is this dinosaur skeleton? Isle of Wight
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After the satisfying outcome of my sloth-experiment (changing geoworld megatherium to Thalassocnus) I took another look at some older dinosaur models. Sauropoda- Giraffatitan: "Edutoys Brachiosaurus", added teeth and one cervical vertebra to give him a more erect pose, Changed cervical ribs from medial "monorib". changed leg pose. Thyreophora- Stegosaurus: Glencoe models , changed tail and thagomizer to more modern pose Ceratopsia- Triceratops: Kaiyodo "Wild rush" gave him a treetrunk to look over. Ornithopoda- Parasaurolophus: Geoworld, drilled out intercostal plastik. painted it. Theropoda- Spinosaurus: had it 3d printed. I wonder if I should give it a swimming pose, what do you think?
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Psittacosaurus Skeleton
kirkjeremiah23 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Thoughts on this skeleton?
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'Crazy Beast' Fossil Discovered in Madagascar Reveals Bizarre Mammal From the Cretaceous Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo, April 29, 2020 https://gizmodo.com/crazy-beast-fossil-discovered-in-madagascar-reveals-biz-1843143385 My, what big teeth and strange bones you have. Scientists discover a creature that roamed south of the equator 66 million years ago. By Ben Guarno, Washington Post, April 29, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/04/29/mammal-skeleton-adalatherium-hui/ Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar: Researchers discover 66-million-year-old 'crazy beast' by Stony Brook University, April 29, 2020 https://phys.org/news/2020-04-marooned-mesozoic-madagascar-million-year-old-crazy.html https://www.livescience.com/ancient-bizarre-mammal-madagascar.html The paper is: Krause, D.W., Hoffmann, S., Hu, Y. et al. Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2234-8 Yours, Paul H.
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I have a couple questions about the long bone on the far left and the smaller on the far right there labeled as raptor Leg bones from the kem kem beds any idea what dinosaur these could possibly be from and what location on the animal. They came from the same animal.
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Dinosaur ? (Marine reptile?) skeleton discovered while ammonite hunting in central Oregon
TheNecromancer13 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
2 days ago I was digging for ammonites in a road cut in central oregon, and happened across some very large bones. I will be returning to the site with a team of NARG members and affiliates to excavate it in a few weeks. Super exciting find, there are at least 6 bones exposed, probably many more yet to be found. The ribs are 3 inches thick, so probably at least a 20 foot animal. This is by far the coolest thing I've ever found.
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Hi everyone, Can you help me identify what animal this may be? It was found in Botswana. It is a semi-arid climate. Any idea if it's carnivorous or not? Any clues are helpful! Thanks.
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Thought I would share some photos of a recent hunt on the Milk River in Alberta a few weeks ago. I took a friend and his daughter where I had found dinosaur bones including a raptor toe claw in the past while deer hunting. About 2 hours into our search we found what appears to be a full skeleton or a good portion of one. There were several bones exposed along with vertebrae and finger bones on the surface. We moved away some of the dirt and more and more bones were connected, we chose to leave it there except for a few that were on the surface and call the University. Waiting on good weather to have them come assess the find. For those that in Alberta it was determined to be in the Foremost formation and likely to be a Hadrosaur.
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Hey guys, I've found some bones and want to see if anyone is able to identify them for me. So while snorkeling off the coast of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands I found a spine of some sort. It was resting inside the opening of a cave. The length of spine that was visible to me was about half a metre maybe just over half a metre long. Each single vertebrae was about 20cm wide. Please view the photo provided. (Sorry I'm having trouble uploading the photo, I'm gonna try again in the morning..) Any help or input is greatly appreciated thank you
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May I seek your view on the authenticity of the Psittachosaurus skeleton? It is from Beipiao of Liaoning.
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Hey everybody, My team writes math textbooks and we want to include dinosaurs in them. We're trying to find a document that states the amount of bones (approx.) in different kinds of dinosaurs. I would really appreciate your help! Thanks, Gonzalo from Uruguay
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Hi, what do you think about this Chinese specimen of Psittacosaurus? Genuine?
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Do you think this is a genuine skeleton of psittacosaurus?
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I found this today. Hard as a rock.
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